IIC Business Strategy and Solution Lifecycle
Plan/Build/Run
The Plan/Build/Run part of the BSSL Framework provides a methodology for IIoT project
managers and IIoT solution architects, including:
Analysis/Design Approach: Building on the templates depicted in Figure 5, this provides
an IIoT-specific approach for structured analysis of all dimensions of an IIoT project, as
well as a structured, IIoT-specific solution design approach.
IIoT Organization Model: Provides best practices for creation and management of an
agile IIoT-organization.
2.1.2.2.1
Developing an IIoT Business Solution Based on the IIRA
The IIC Technical Frameworks (see Figure 5) include the IIRA, which defines four viewpoints.
These viewpoints represent steps from the initial business perspective and its requirements,
toward the full design of a solution implementation:
The Business Viewpoint establishes the general business rationale and the requirements.
The Usage Viewpoint defines the processes and usage patterns: activities, roles, etc.
The Functional Viewpoint identifies the functional components and their connections.
The
Implementation
Viewpoint
selects
architecture
patterns
and
technologies/standards.
There is a natural progression across these viewpoints: business usage functional
implementation design. But this only represents one iteration cycle in designing a solution based
on the IIRA. Throughout this process, each viewpoint uses the previous one for requirements,
and in turn is further developed in the next one. Only after the initial business objectives are
translated into the various viewpoints throughout this process, do the “real constraints” and
conflicts about requirements emerge: regulatory impact, company or industry policies, actual
financial cost, timeline, operational disruption, and the cost of ensuring “system characteristics”
(e.g., security, reliability, resilience, safety and scalability). Consequently trade-offs need be
made, priorities of requirements revised and the solution design updated in the following
iteration of the design process, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8: Developing an IIoT Business Solution based on the IIRA
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